Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) Advanced Manufacturing (6)
- (-) Materials (53)
- (-) Supercomputing (71)
- Biological Systems (1)
- Biology and Environment (60)
- Building Technologies (2)
- Clean Energy (128)
- Computational Biology (2)
- Computational Engineering (1)
- Computer Science (3)
- Energy Sciences (2)
- Fusion and Fission (14)
- Fusion Energy (9)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (10)
- Materials for Computing (12)
- National Security (9)
- Neutron Science (26)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (19)
- Nuclear Systems Modeling, Simulation and Validation (1)
- Quantum information Science (1)
News Type
News Topics
- (-) Advanced Reactors (4)
- (-) Biomedical (21)
- (-) Coronavirus (17)
- (-) Energy Storage (35)
- (-) Exascale Computing (20)
- (-) Frontier (26)
- (-) Space Exploration (6)
- (-) Sustainable Energy (21)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (43)
- Artificial Intelligence (37)
- Big Data (18)
- Bioenergy (18)
- Biology (14)
- Biotechnology (2)
- Buildings (7)
- Chemical Sciences (31)
- Clean Water (3)
- Climate Change (21)
- Composites (12)
- Computer Science (95)
- Critical Materials (15)
- Cybersecurity (8)
- Decarbonization (10)
- Environment (33)
- Fusion (7)
- Grid (8)
- High-Performance Computing (36)
- Isotopes (13)
- ITER (1)
- Machine Learning (14)
- Materials (80)
- Materials Science (79)
- Mathematics (1)
- Microscopy (26)
- Molten Salt (3)
- Nanotechnology (40)
- National Security (8)
- Net Zero (2)
- Neutron Science (42)
- Nuclear Energy (18)
- Partnerships (11)
- Physics (32)
- Polymers (17)
- Quantum Computing (20)
- Quantum Science (31)
- Renewable Energy (1)
- Security (6)
- Simulation (12)
- Software (1)
- Summit (41)
- Transformational Challenge Reactor (4)
- Transportation (19)
Media Contacts
Electric vehicles can drive longer distances if their lithium-ion batteries deliver more energy in a lighter package. A prime weight-loss candidate is the current collector, a component that often adds 10% to the weight of a battery cell without contributing energy.
Scientists at ORNL used their knowledge of complex ecosystem processes, energy systems, human dynamics, computational science and Earth-scale modeling to inform the nation’s latest National Climate Assessment, which draws attention to vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities in every region of the country.
The team that built Frontier set out to break the exascale barrier, but the supercomputer’s record-breaking didn’t stop there.
Making room for the world’s first exascale supercomputer took some supersized renovations.
The world’s first exascale supercomputer will help scientists peer into the future of global climate change and open a window into weather patterns that could affect the world a generation from now.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has allocated supercomputer access to a record-breaking 75 computational science projects for 2024 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INCITE, program. DOE is awarding 60% of the available time on the leadership-class supercomputers at DOE’s Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to accelerate discovery and innovation.
Scientists at ORNL used their expertise in quantum biology, artificial intelligence and bioengineering to improve how CRISPR Cas9 genome editing tools work on organisms like microbes that can be modified to produce renewable fuels and chemicals.
In fiscal year 2023 — Oct. 1–Sept. 30, 2023 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory was awarded more than $8 million in technology maturation funding through the Department of Energy’s Technology Commercialization Fund, or TCF.
As current courses through a battery, its materials erode over time. Mechanical influences such as stress and strain affect this trajectory, although their impacts on battery efficacy and longevity are not fully understood.
ORNL has been selected to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center, or EERC, focused on developing chemical processes that use sustainable methods instead of burning fossil fuels to radically reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to stem climate change and limit the crisis of a rapidly warming planet.